Pipe Rack Design Project Overview

Summary

This video provides a comprehensive overview of the project workflow in the oil and gas industry, broken down into nine key steps. It covers the entire process, from project kickoff with interdisciplinary meetings to final quality assurance and review. Key phases include basic engineering, design, preliminary data submission, load verification, and detailed design. The video highlights the iterative collaboration between piping, civil, structural, electrical, and mechanical teams to ensure accurate and efficient project execution. It concludes with a focus on construction and quality assurance. Upcoming sessions will delve deeper into essential inputs from various engineering disciplines.

Takeaways

• 📈 The project workflow in the oil and gas industry is divided into nine segments, each crucial for project execution.
• 🚀 The project starts with a kickoff meeting involving all key engineering disciplines to align objectives, timelines, and data requirements.
• 🛠️ The basic engineering and design phase involves creating initial layouts, estimating pipe sizes, and determining primary and secondary lines.
• 📊 Preliminary data submission includes estimating pipe weights, insulation contents, and thermal allowances for civil and structural teams.
• 📐 Preliminary drawings are developed using initial input to create foundation designs and structural member sizes, which help in estimating material quantities.
• 🔄 Load data is continually refined through an iterative process between piping, stress, and civil teams to ensure accuracy.
• 📑 The detailed design phase finalizes foundation designs, structural member sizes, and construction drawings, including safety and future expansion considerations.
• 🏗️ Construction documentation is prepared and issued to the construction team to execute the building of the pipe rack on site.
• 🔧 The project execution phase involves the construction team building the pipe rack, with ongoing support from engineering teams to resolve any issues.
• ✅ The final phase is quality assurance and review, ensuring all safety, regulatory, and operational requirements are met before project completion.

Q & A

What is the first step in the oil and gas project workflow?

The first step is the project kickoff, which involves a meeting between all key engineering disciplines such as piping, civil, structural, underground (UG) teams, electrical, instrument, mechanical, and process teams. The goal is to align objectives, timelines, and initial data requirements for the project.

What is the role of the piping team during the basic engineering and design phase?

During the basic engineering and design phase, the piping team develops an initial layout and estimates pipe sizes, routes, and general arrangements. They also identify primary and secondary lines and the preliminary loads on the structure, which help determine the piping rack geometry and overall plant layout.

What data does the electrical and instrument team provide during the design phase?

The electrical and instrument team provides data on cable tray layouts, equipment placements, and other specific electrical and instrument requirements for the project.

What is the significance of the preliminary data submission phase?

In the preliminary data submission phase, the piping team submits estimated loads and preliminary layout data to the civil and structural teams. This data includes pipe weights, insulation contents, and thermal expansion or contraction allowances, which are used by civil and structural teams to create the primary designs for the foundation and structural members of the pipe rack.

What happens during the development of preliminary drawings?

Using the estimated loads and initial input data, the civil and structural teams create preliminary drawings, including foundation designs (open or pile foundation) and structural member sizes. These drawings are also used to estimate the bill of quantities for the required materials.

What is the purpose of load data verification and adjustment?

As more accurate data becomes available, the piping and stress teams refine their load estimates and provide updated information to the civil and structural teams. This iterative process ensures that all disciplines work with the most accurate data to complete the project.

When does the project enter the detailed design phase?

Once sufficient data is available, the project moves into the detailed design phase, where the civil and structural teams finalize foundation designs, structural member sizes, and construction drawings. Safety, regulatory, and future expansion requirements are also taken into account.

What documents are prepared during the construction documentation phase?

In the construction documentation phase, final construction documents are prepared, including detailed drawings and specifications. These documents are issued to the construction team for execution on-site.

What happens during the project execution and construction phase?

During this phase, the construction team begins building the pipe rack based on the finalized design documents. Engineering teams continue to provide support on-site, resolving any issues that arise during construction.

What is the final step in the project workflow?

The final step is quality assurance and final review, where the project undergoes quality checks and a final review to ensure it meets all safety, regulatory, and operational requirements.

Outlines

00:00

🚀 Introduction to Project Flow in Oil and Gas Industry

In this introductory segment, the presenter welcomes engineers and provides an overview of the project workflow in the oil and gas industry. The entire process is broken down into nine key steps, starting with the project kickoff. The kickoff involves a meeting among all major engineering disciplines (piping, civil, electrical, mechanical, etc.) to align objectives, timelines, and data requirements. The basic engineering and design phase follows, where the piping team develops initial layouts and estimates for pipe sizes and routes. The electrical and instrument teams also provide data on equipment placement and cable layouts. This segment serves to summarize how multinational firms execute projects in this industry, with emphasis on collaboration between different teams.

05:02

📊 Preliminary Data Submission and Early Design Phase

This segment focuses on the early design phase and the submission of preliminary data. The piping team provides estimated loads and layout data to the civil and structural teams, who use this information to create preliminary designs for the foundation and structural members of the pipe rack. The segment also discusses how these designs, based on early load data, help estimate materials needed for the project. Collaboration and constant updates between the piping, stress, civil, and structural teams ensure the project progresses smoothly through the iterative process of load data verification and adjustment.

Keywords

💡Project Kickoff

The project kickoff is the initial phase of a project in the oil and gas industry. It involves a meeting between key engineering disciplines such as piping, civil, structural, electrical, and mechanical teams to align objectives, timelines, and data requirements. This phase is crucial for setting the foundation for collaboration and ensuring all teams are on the same page.

💡Basic Engineering and Design

This phase involves the initial layout of the piping system, estimating pipe sizes, routes, and general arrangements. The purpose of basic engineering and design is to establish the groundwork for the overall plant layout, which also influences the civil and structural teams. This stage is essential in defining the framework for the entire project’s design and development.

💡Preliminary Data Submission

During this phase, the piping team submits estimated loads and preliminary layout data to the civil and structural teams. This data includes pipe weights, insulation contents, and thermal expansion allowances. It is a critical step for civil engineers to design the foundations and structural elements that will support the piping system.

💡Load Data Verification

This phase refers to the process where the piping and stress teams refine their load estimates as more accurate data becomes available. Updated load information is provided to the civil and structural teams, ensuring accurate designs for the foundation and structural members. Load data verification ensures the design evolves accurately over time.

💡Detailed Design Phase

In the detailed design phase, teams finalize the designs for the foundation, structural members, and other construction elements based on the refined data. This phase takes into account safety, regulatory requirements, and future expansion. It is the stage where the designs are fully completed, preparing the project for construction.

💡Construction Documentation

Construction documentation includes the preparation of detailed drawings, specifications, and other documents that will guide the construction team. These documents provide precise instructions on how to execute the construction based on the finalized designs. It ensures the construction process adheres to the design specifications.

💡Project Execution and Construction

This phase marks the actual building of the Pipe Rack based on the detailed design documents. Construction teams begin the physical work, while engineering teams provide ongoing support and help resolve any issues that arise on-site. It is the implementation phase where the project transitions from design to physical reality.

💡Quality Assurance and Final Review

The quality assurance and final review phase ensures that the completed project meets all the safety, regulatory, and operational requirements. This is the final check before the project is considered complete, verifying that everything was built to specifications and meets industry standards.

💡Piping Stress Team

The piping stress team is responsible for analyzing the loads on pipes, including thermal expansion and contraction. Although they do not have all the precise data during early design stages, they provide estimated load data for the civil and structural teams to use in their designs. This team plays a key role in ensuring the structural integrity of the piping system.

💡Thermal Expansion and Contraction

Thermal expansion and contraction refer to the changes in pipe dimensions due to temperature variations. These changes must be accounted for in the design phase to ensure the integrity of the piping system and prevent damage. In the script, these factors are considered in the preliminary data submission to ensure the structural design accommodates them.

Highlights

Introduction to the project workflow in oil and gas industry, divided into nine key steps.

The project kickoff phase involves a meeting between all key engineering disciplines, including piping, civil, structural, electrical, mechanical, and process teams.

Basic engineering and design phase includes initial layout development, estimation of pipe sizes and routes, and identification of primary and secondary lines.

The layout in the basic engineering phase determines the overall plant layout and geometry of the pipe rack.

Electrical and instrument teams provide data on cable tray layouts and equipment placements during the basic engineering phase.

Preliminary data submission involves piping teams submitting load estimates and preliminary layout data to civil and structural teams.

The civil and structural teams use the piping data to create primary designs for the foundation and structural members of the pipe rack.

Development of preliminary drawings based on initial inputs, including foundation designs and structural member sizes.

The preliminary drawings help estimate the bill of quantities for materials required for the project.

Load data verification and adjustment phase where piping and stress teams refine load estimates and collaborate with civil and structural teams.

Detailed design phase finalizes foundation designs, structural member sizes, and ensures compliance with safety and regulatory requirements.

Construction documentation is prepared to provide detailed drawings and specifications for the on-site construction team.

Project execution and construction phase involves building the pipe rack based on finalized designs, with ongoing engineering team support.

Quality assurance and final review ensure the project meets safety, regulatory, and operational requirements before final approval.

The early design stage requires the piping and stress teams to provide initial data, even if preliminary, for civil and structural team collaboration.

Transcripts

[Music]

hello engineers and welcome back to

civil nman see before we jump into the

uh design and Analysis of the PIP part I

want you to understand the project flow

in oil and gas industry how this usually

works right so for your understanding I

have divided all the projects uh project

workflow in the total nine steps so we

will understand each of these set

segments one by one uh as a summary so

that you will get an idea how the

project is executed by the multinational

firms in oil and gas industry right so

so the first segment that will be start

that will be in the form of the project

kickoff all right so basically the

project begins with the with a meeting

between all the key engineering

disciplines which includes the piping

civil structureal teams ug teams

electrical and instrument teams with the

mechanical and process as well right now

this particular is to align the

objectives timelines and initial data

requirements that required for a

particular

project the next important phase is the

basic engineering and design phase see

during this particular phase the piping

thing develops an initial layout and

estimate the pipe sizes roots and

general Arrangement they also identify

the primary and secondary lines and the

preliminary loads on the structure so

this will decide uh this particular

layout will decide your pip rag geometry

and the overall plant layout right in

the similar manner the electrical and

instrument team provides the data on the

cable tray layouts equipment placements

and other specific electrical and

instrument disciplines uh equipment or

machiner

requirements next important phase is the

preliminary data submission see the

piping team submits the estimated loads

and preliminary layout data to the Civil

land structure teams then after this

data includes the estimated pipe wapes

insulation contents and any thermal

expansion or contraction allowances

right so the civil and structure teams

use these data to create the primary

designs for the foundation and

structural members of the PIP rack so

that's the uh segment for the

preliminary data submission

part in the next phase we have

development of the preliminary drawings

using the estimated loads and initial

input the civil and structure teams

create the preliminary drawings

including the foundation design uh it

can be open foundation or pile

foundation and the structural member

sizes and these drawings are used to

estimate the bill of quantities for the

material required as well in the next

next phase we have load data

verification and adjustment see as more

accurate data becomes available the

piping and stress team refine their load

estimates and provide the updated

information to the civil and structural

teams and this iterative process

continues similarly with the ongoing

collaboration and regular updates to

ensure all the disciplines are working

with the most accurate

data in order to complete a particular

project and then comes the detail design

design phase so once sufficient data is

available the project moves into the

Dale design phase where the civil and

stral team finalize the foundation

designs structural member sizes and

construction drawings all the necessary

safety regularity and future expansion

requirements are also taken into the

account then we have the process of

construction documentation where finer

construction documents including the

detailed drawings and specifications are

prepared and issued to the construction

team in order to execute the

construction process on

site next we have project execution and

construction so in this particular phase

the construction team Begins the

building the Pipe Rack based on the

finalized design documents the

engineering teams continue to provide

their support as needed on site as well

resolving any issues that arises during

the construction and the last important

point is the quality assour urance and

the final review so the project under

goes the quality assurance checks and a

final review to ensure it meet all the

safety regularity and the plan

requirements its operational

requirements as well right so I hope

this particular nine steps give you the

overall idea of how accurately how

exactly the project works in the

engineering discipline in an engineering

form

right so usually the early design stage

uh the basic engineering and design

phase the piping layout and support

designs are still in the early stage and

the piping stress team which is

responsible for analyzing the loads on

pipe they doesn't have all the details

needed to provide precise loading data

to the civil and structure team see as

the project progress according to the

schedule the piping team must provide

the initial input data to the civil and

structure team even if if it's based on

the estimated or the preliminary data

and then based on that the piping and

stress teams should ensure that their

input data consider future requirements

such as additional space for potential

expansion any updates or changes to the

design that will be provided with the

future submission if required similarly

the estimated load provided by the

piping and stress teams are will be used

to create a preliminary design including

the size of the foundation and

structural members as I suggest right so

based on the preliminary load data

provided during the B phase that should

be detailed enough to create initial

drawings for the installation of your

pile found Foundation or the open

foundation whatever the requirement a

project particular project have right so

this is the overall summary right in the

upcoming session we will understand what

are the most important input that you

will be required from the other

disciplines like piping electrical and

instrument and what points you need to

take care before jumping into the

project part so stay tuned for the next

session